The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1887-01-08
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has sailed for home
P. T. BARNUM is building three toboggau
slides at Bridgeport.
CoNNECTICUTTER has invented mast
that bends to the gale.
The South Carolina General Assembly
has adjourned sine die.
AN Orlando (Fla.) warehouse holds 200
barrels of orange wine.
TRIFLE of S25, 500, 600 is still needed to
finish the Panama canal.
BosToN dentist has had to pay $50 for
pulling the wrong tooth.
GENERAL MILES is considered the hand
somest officer of the army.
SINCE the eFranco-German war 1l5 statues
have been erected in France.
SIC. MARCANToNIo CANINI, Of Venice, can
speak ninety-three languages.
THE first crematory in the South is
about to be constructed near San Antonio,
Tex.
The man who writes Xmas for Christ
mas will probably refer to next Fourth Of
July as 4-7-'S7
Or the 5000 votes cast in the recent cleo
tion in Washington Territory, 1900 were
CALIFORNIA claims the largest squash Of
the season. 1t was raised at Lompoe, and
weighs 251 pounds.
TENNEssEE's peanut crop this year is
worth 100000. The average yield per acre
is forty-two bushels.
NEARLY 10000 doctors have been gradu-
ated from the various medical colleges dur
ing the last ten years.
A HELENA, (M. IT, man offers to bet one
hundred dollars that he can live for three
months on hay and oats.
THE largest tree in California is in Tulare
County, and is 450 feet high, and the trunk
l3S feet in circumference.
EMPEROR WILLIAM, if he lives until next
March, will be ninety years old. The old
est ruler of modern times
Mr.. CHARLES STEWART PARNELL is said to
receive more letters and to answer less
than any other man in Europe.
THE British Medical Journal reports case
of poisoning from the accidental swallow
ing OF piece of an aniline pencil.
A WOMAN who recently died in New York
was found, upon post-mortem examination,
to have needle imbedded in her heart
WITHOUT miss marksman broke 105
glass balls at twenty-five yards rise, on
wager, at Keyport, N. j., few days ago.
TELEPHoNING between New York and
Philadelphia is now as easy as it was be-
tween points block apart few months
ago.
"A RoBERT T. LINCOLN announces that his
political life Is ended, and that the law
will hereafter receive his undivided atten
tion.
THE Harrison Memorial Association, Of
Ohio, will ask the legislature to apprc-
pirate $4,000 for statue Of Old Tippe-
canoe.
RUSSIA has advertised for 100000 pairs
Of shoes. The Car evidently wants to
keep his family in footwear during the
sliding season.
'THE peace Of Europe" says an ex-
change, ''costs about 81 ,0OO, ,OOO, 900 year."
And even at that price Europe gets an un-
satisfactory article.
GEORGE SHEPARD, of Iowa, has lost three
wives by the accidental discharge" of his
revolver. The third time he was arrested
and held for murder.
The largest copper plates ever rolled in
Pittsburgh, Pa, were turned out few
days ago. They were circular in form, and
measured 176 inches in diameter.
AT Martinsville, Ind, there was born to
the wife Of Edward Bishop girl baby
weighing two pounds. The child is per-
fectly formed, is hale and hearty.
THERE are in the whole United States
about thirty or forty locomotive works,
turning out about 5000 locomotives year,
and employing about 1900 hands.
The discovery of a network Of so-cailed
canals on the planet Mars by Schiaparella
several years ago has been confirmed
by observers both in England and Italy.
THE Washington Monument is completed
excepting the terrace work at the base,
ETC., and now the question is how to pre-
serve it and protect it from vandalisms
twill astonish many people to learn that
French duel has resulted fatally.
Neither of the contestants shot the other,
but one of them went home and shot him
self.
AN experienced philosopher and sports
man observes that it is easier to lug .
heavy shotgun ten hours through an i'm
penetrable swamp than to put up clothes
line.
AN Australian has invented an cleo
trical machine-gun, which he claims Is
capable of firing 100 rounds every few Sec
onds from any position and in any direc
ton.
NEW YORK CITY has daily newspaper
printed in the Hebrew language and in
Hebrew characters, and called the Daily
Gazette There are only two like it in II .
world.
MIDDLE Tennessee is to organize an anti
horse thief association and offer reward
of 500 for every animal stolen. There are
more horses stolen in that section now
than at any time since the war.
JOE DEMoNEs, fifteen years old, and
black, went down to the landing at Jeffer-
sonville, KY, to see steamboat go out.
As he stood looking she blew her whistle
viciously, and Immediately the boy lost the
power of speech and hasn't spoken since.
AN Englishman who lately visited the
cemetery at Lisbon, where Fielding 10
buried, reports that the great novelst's
grave is uncared for and overgrown and
the inscription in some places almost oh
| literated.
teen years ego received eighty cents an
evening for singing in Madrid concert
hall. Ee recently made contract to sing
| fifty nights in Italian opera, for which he
will roceive $4,000
SUca is the rapid growth Of population
| ID London, particularly in the east that IL